Airbnb burglary victim says company tried to quiet her — Blogger “EJ,” who wrote about her experience with Airbnb, updated her blog Thursday night saying that the company had asked her to remove the post, fearing bad press. — EJ wrote last month that renters she found through the site burgled and trashed her home.

New Google Search experience for tablets — (Cross-posted on the Inside Search blog) — As part of our effort to evolve the Google design and experience, we've improved the www.google.com search experience on tablets. We've simplified the layout of search results pages and increased …

Foursquare & Groupon Hook Up for Real-Time Deals [EXCLUSIVE] — Foursquare users in the U.S. and Canada will start to see Groupon's daily deals in the Explore tab of the application and on Foursquare.com beginning Friday, Mashable has learned. — Groupon has become Foursquare's sixth and latest daily deals partner.

Buy a new Mac, get iLife for all your Macs — As with every Mac in recent memory, Apple's latest hardware releases, the MacBook Air (Mid 2011) and Mac mini (Mid 2011), include the current versions of Mac OS X and iLife—in this case, Lion (OS X 10.7) and iLife '11.

Gmail Snooze with Apps Script — Editor's Note: For a more technical description, see the Google Apps Developer Blog — At Google, we all use email very heavily — for communicating with other Googlers, for task management, and to mail around funny pictures of kittens.

Apple Now Has More Cash Than the U.S. Government — When Apple reported last week that it had $76 billion in cash, we speculated that it might be enough to buy Goldman Sachs or Facebook. Today, Steve Jobs' reserves match up with the world's largest sovereign entity. — That's right.

Facebook launches bug bounty program — Facebook is set to announce today a bug bounty program in which researchers will be paid for reporting security holes on the popular social-networking Web site. — Compensation, which starts at $500 and has no maximum set, will be paid only to researchers …

Steve Jobs Sometimes Lies to You — I love Apple. I love Apple so much that if someone gave me a bulletproof vest made out of MacBook Airs, I'd strap it to my back and take a bullet to my chest to protect my precious aluminum friends. — But Steve's lying to us when it comes to FaceTime.

Flying Drone Can Crack Wi-Fi Networks, Snoop On Cell Phones — Mike Tassey posing with the Wireless Aerial Surveillance Platform, WASP. — How do one ex-Air Force official and one former airplane hobby shop owner, both of whom happen to have decades of experience as network security contractors …

Local business site challenges Google ranking — With federal regulators pursuing an antitrust probe over whether Google (GOOG) is abusing its dominance in search to favor its own online products, a company that owns several Bay Area websites promoting local small businesses is taking …